The Carnival

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Permanent Location: Moscow, south of the Red Light District near the river.

The Carnival set up a permanent location when Dominick Vas started showing signs of the sickness. His sister Roza also displayed the sickness around the same time. Both children got better, but by then they had already erected permanent brick and mortar tiny houses painted in extravagant colors for their personal lodgings. The Carnival is a series of several tents and open buildings sitting next to the River.

The Carnival employees comprise mostly those who travelled with the carnival before they made a permanent home in Moscow. They stay for reasons of their own, entertaining the masses.

Side-Shows Available:

Strong man – Denes Vas
Tarot cards/Fortunes – Renáta Vas
Snake Charmer – Viktoria Vas
Magic show – Dominick Vas & Roza Vas
“The Veil’s Embrace,” haunted attraction – Sámiel Pekelniak
Silversmith – Fennix Vero
Candy maker
Basket Weaving
Palm Reader/Fortunes (The Vero Sisters, rivals to the Vas family)
Tattooist – Ceija Vero
The Dance Circle (theater/singing/dancing)
A Petting Zoo
Several Games of Chance
Various others

Long rows of tapestries sequester the domicile buildings to separate the carnival from their homes. Meant to keep prying eyes from their private accommodations more than to keep people out.

The camp houses about 5 different Romani families (including the Vas family, the Kádár family, the Pekelniak family, and the Vero family), for at least six generations or more. Romani families arrange marriages with other families outside their carnival to keep the blood fresh. The elders encourage young Romani women to foster relations at an appropriate age with outsiders to bring in new blood without ties.

Most children remain with the carnival but a few move away or come home, eventually.

The Vas Family

Renáta Vas (Carnival Leader/Fortuneteller) – mother “false prophet” (note: Sister to Zeke’s mother)
Denes Vas (Strong Man) – father
Kada Vas (Animal handler) – younger brother 15
Albert Vas (runner) – youngest brother 10
Dominik Vas (magic show) – eldest brother 26
Viktoria Vas (snake charmer) oldest sister 23
Nusa Vas – baby sister (3 years old)
Roza Vas – age 19
Esper – age 18